Archives for November 2013

As the Tennessee Valley prepares for winter weather, the Tennessee Department of Transportation provides these winter safe driving tips: Reduce Your Speed When it snows, use your head not your feet. Slow down for wet, snowy, or icy conditions; when visibility is poor; or when conditions are changing or unpredictable; no matter what type of vehicle you drive. Even an SUV with four-wheel drive may not be able to stop any faster, or maintain control ...Read More

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) In spite of being more than centuries old, the salt mine is still in use today. The mine produces more than 500 tons of salt each year for use in cooking and for a range of unique souvenirs. There is still more than one billion tons of ore left in the mine, which is extracted using machines and underground blasting, according to a 1971-79 survey. This is the salt mine ...Read More

Animals need salt too and their bodies regulate the right amount. Just like people. Q. My new 2-year-old filly is obsessively licking and biting her salt block. She lives on a dry lot and gets high-quality orchard grass hay, a daily ration of commercial horse feed appropriate for her growth stage and size, and an omega-3 supplement. She also receives ample fresh water. Her current workload is very light and mostly includes basic handling rather ...Read More

The Department of Health in the UK is scraping plans for tougher salt reduction targets on many products. Regulators have accepted food industry claims that any further reductions in salt in key foods such as meats would endanger the public and significantly affect taste. Full story is here ...Read More

Morton Satin wants you to eat your vegetables. He wants you to consume broccoli, carrots, cabbage – all the good-for-you greens, reds and yellows out there. But most importantly, he wants you to enjoy them so you will eat them every day. And that means you must add salt. Bring that salt shaker out of hiding and start enjoying your food again, is Satin’s advice. Who is this maverick whose concepts on salt fly in ...Read More

When the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) opened a new facility for winter de-icing operations and salt storage in Wabash, Indiana, earlier this year, it was the fourth such facility the state had commissioned and built since 2010. And as with the previous three structures, the new tension fabric building in Wabash – which provides enough capacity to store 3,600 tons of salt – was custom designed, engineered and erected by Legacy Building Solutions. “This ...Read More

The Huffington Post November 13, 2013 By Melinda Wenner Moyer Salt has long been one of the great villains of the American diet, and the rules of engagement have come down to one rather bland pronouncement: Eat less of it. This, of course, is easier said than done. On average, adults consume 3,463 milligrams of sodium per day -- 50 percent more than the recommended maximum of 2,300 milligrams for adults 50 and younger and ...Read More

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